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_The execution violated the basic laws of Tharnar. / But the danger was too great -- The Terrans couldn't / be permitted to live under any circumstances...._
Tal-Karanth, Supreme Executive of Tharnar, signed the paper and dropped it in to the out-going slot of the message dispatch tube. It was an act that would terminate one hundred and eighty days of studying the tapes and records on the Terran ship and would set the final hearing of the Terran man and woman for that day.